During my installation and first few hours at site, a woman came up to me and said, ‘Nice to finally meet you, I’m your new Gasy mama!’ Since then I have gotten to know her and her family, and they invite me over for lunch on the weekends. As a thank you I decided to cook spaghetti for them. They watched me closely to learn how to make the sauce and I encouraged them to try to make the sauce again in the future if they liked it. I thought the spaghetti turned out well even though the sauce was a little watery and my Gasy family claimed there wasn’t enough salt. However, after the spaghetti the still brought out rice and loaka (the food that’s served over the rice)-a whole other meal! At first I thought maybe they made the rice and loaka as a backup in case they didn’t like the spaghetti but that wasn’t the case. My Gasy family just simply stated that they aren’t full until they’ve eaten rice!
You know you’re a PCV when
-You’ve gone to bed before 6:00pm.
-You consider staring into space to be an acceptable pastime
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